What is LotusLive? LotusLive is the brand name for meeting, messaging and collaboration applications IBM intends to deliver to partners, who will in turn put them in front of their customers as a SAAS (software as a service) platform this year, Sean Poulley, vice president of online collaboration at IBM, told eWEEK at Lotusphere 2009 Jan. 20.

IBM demonstrated the first product, LotusLive Engage, which blends social networking, Web conferencing, chat, file sharing and storage for enterprise collaboration, at the event. Officially, Engage is the product formerly known as Bluehouse. But that was just a taste to whet Lotus lovers' appetites.

Poulley and other IBM officials promised much more from LotusLive later this year, but it was unclear during his presentation what those solutions would be. eWEEK asked Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president of messaging and collaboration for IBM, what LotusLive would include, in an interview later in the day.

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